Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land replete with both couch potatoes and high-tech capitalists, surely deserves high-definition television (HDTV), the digital TV signal whose aesthetic pleasures and economic efficiencies will transform the shows we watch and the boxes we watch them on. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted to give broadcasters free channels on which to broadcast digital versions of their current programs. A few questions about the future of the boob tube...
Other stations will have the option of sending just one "signal" over their frequency, but making their broadcast high-definition instead. Manufacturers and content providers have fought over HDTV--which provides for a larger viewing area and greater resolution--for the better part of a decade. HDTV will be available over the new digital channels...
...which reporters talk about their reaction to major news events, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Paula Zahn anchors Fast Forward, which takes a look at people who used to be in the news, from Morton Downey Jr. to George McGovern. Final Cut will run unedited versions of interviews previously broadcast in shorter form on various CBS shows, while 60 Minutes More and 48 Hours Later will reprise and do follow-ups on stories aired earlier by those magazine shows...
...Channel) have done by offering money to cable systems in return for carrying them. Yet CBS does have some potential clout to wield. It could hold up permission for cable systems to retransmit local CBS stations unless they agree to pick up Eye on People--a tactic the other broadcast networks have used in order to get wider distribution for their start-up cable ventures...
Even so, CBS executives project that the channel won't break even for six years. If it can hang on that long, digital technology--or a new generation of direct-broadcast satellites--is expected to increase capacity so much that getting space on the dial will no longer be a problem. The goal for CBS, like its network competitors, in this virtually unlimited marketplace is to accumulate shelf space--and hope that Eye on People is one product shoppers won't pass...